{"id":467840,"date":"2026-02-14T07:47:08","date_gmt":"2026-02-14T07:47:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/467840\/"},"modified":"2026-02-14T07:47:08","modified_gmt":"2026-02-14T07:47:08","slug":"youtube-filmmakers-about-to-begin-religious-horror-film-it-visits-me","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/467840\/","title":{"rendered":"YouTube Filmmakers About To Begin Religious Horror Film &#8216;It Visits Me&#8217;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/ lrv-u-margin-lr-auto     \">\n\tEXCLUSIVE: Inspired by the DIY success of Markiplier\u2019s Iron Lung, Dylan Clark\u2019s Portrait of God sale to Monkeypaw, and Curry Barker\u2019s Obsession, <a href=\"https:\/\/deadline.com\/tag\/youtube\/\" id=\"auto-tag_youtube\" data-tag=\"youtube\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">YouTube<\/a> horror filmmakers Cameron Gallagher and Jeremiah Lewis are moving into production next week on It Visits Me, a psychological horror based on their viral short of the same name that is approaching 100,000 views on YouTube.<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/ lrv-u-margin-lr-auto     \">\n\tGallagher is writer-director and Lewis is producer-writer on the project which \u201ccenters on a young woman, Layla, who finds herself stuck at her childhood home, where her sister Abigail, claims to, be visited by an angel\u201d.<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/ lrv-u-margin-lr-auto     \">\n\tThe film will star Sara Hallisey and Hayley Gasbarro, with a cameo from Toby Poser. Director of photography is the team\u2019s long-time collaborator Adam Muro who recently completed production on Claws, starring Thomas Middleditch and Jess Weixler. <\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/ lrv-u-margin-lr-auto     \">\n\tGallagher and Lewis, who will produce, say the film is being positioned as a slow-burn psychological horror in the vein of Saint Maud, The Lodge and Possession, leaning heavily into the religious horror subgenre.<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/ lrv-u-margin-lr-auto     \">\n\tGallagher and Lewis have collaborated on multiple YouTube horror shorts and the former previously had his short film 2 Players Required featured on Bloody Bites from Screambox and Bloody Disgusting. <\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/ lrv-u-margin-lr-auto     \">\n\t\u201cI\u2019ve always found religious horror to be the scariest, and being able to bring something both scary and satisfying on a character level is what I\u2019m drawn to most as a director,\u201d said Gallagher.<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/ lrv-u-margin-lr-auto     \">\n\t\u201cWe are drawn to stories of people who have been thrown outside their comfort zone in just about every way, and are forced to confront what that disruption means psychologically \u2014 how just the act of disruption creates space for horror in a personal way,\u201d added Lewis.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"EXCLUSIVE: Inspired by the DIY success of Markiplier\u2019s Iron Lung, Dylan Clark\u2019s Portrait of God sale to Monkeypaw,&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":467841,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[52],"tags":[88,206,9280],"class_list":["post-467840","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-movies","tag-entertainment","tag-movies","tag-youtube"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/467840","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=467840"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/467840\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/467841"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=467840"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=467840"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=467840"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}